Zach and I were chatting about current events in the news when Sophie came in. It was right before the German public holiday “Tag der arbeit” which this year fell on a Thursday and she was planning on taking Friday off. Her opening line was “Zach, as you are not here after Monday I thought I would say my good byes now”.
Zach had heard that heard some rumors that his six month contract may be cut short but earlier in the day his boss said that he was unaware of any changes. Well, half a day later apparently it was a bit more cleared up in a team meeting as Sophie was wishing him well on his next assignment.
Things had been going wrong for a while now and unbeknownst to the client and to his agency Zach was not planning to extend, he had enough “fun” for one lifetime. Thus this was not really that much of a shock, it was however a shock to Sophie that nobody had told Zach he wouldn’t be sitting there in 4 days time.
Despite how correct all this information was, nothing was really official. Our boss had to go to his daughters school to pick her up and said that he would talk to Zach in the morning. Well, morning came and morning went. No official word came from either the client nor his agency if he should be doing any kind of handover. It wasn’t clear if or when he should turn in his key or his laptop either.